Announcement 2.2.4

This announcement was made on March 3rd, 2008.

GnuCash 2.2.4 released

The GnuCash development team proudly announces GnuCash 2.2.4 aka "Kicking QIF", the fourth bug fix release in a series of stable releases of the GnuCash Free Accounting Software.

Getting GnuCash

GnuCash 2.2.4 can be downloaded from gnucash.org or sourceforge.net. It is available as source code. For the Microsoft Windows operating system there is a self-installing setup program which includes all necessary additional libraries.

To install GnuCash on other platforms, users will need Gnome 2, guile, and slib. Neither the currently used swig nor the previously used g-wrap packages are needed anymore when compiling from tarball or when installing a binary.

• http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 (Source code and Windows binary)
• http://www.gnucash.org/pub/gnucash/sources/stable/ (Source code only)

27e660297dc5b8ce574515779d05a5a5  gnucash-2.2.4.tar.gz
f521cea858ee7223325114ec98de86ca  gnucash-2.2.4.tar.bz2
9692992bd542d0b51632ee484663c03a  gnucash-2.2.4-setup.exe

What's New in GnuCash 2.2.4?

Fixed Bugs

• #106242: qif Importer should warn users about dates before 1970
• #106383: feature request: close year end
• #123312: QIF Import: Autoselection of Stock Exchange during import
• #336211: QIF Import generates spurious duplicate transactions
• #360058: GnuCash crashes on QIF-import after changing account's separator to * (asterisk)
• #373584: Rounding error in QIF import of commodity transactions
• #454834: Memo Incorrect or missing in Transaction Report
• #457591: QIF import does not handle tabs at top of file
• #481528: QIF importer should show imported transaction as possible duplicate if original transaction is split
• #503166: QIF Import Druid Flow incorrect
• #506798: Custom Reports don't allow sorting by Account Code
• #506873: 'Install Online Price Retrieval' fails with ActivePerl 5.10
• #506810: QIF Import can mismatch account transfers
• #510221: Include Mexican Accounts
• #510630: typo in description of BUYMF transaction (OFX import)
• #510725: crash importing a .OFX file
• #510940: Unrecognized date format causes crash
• #510962: QIF transactions without dates are silently ignored
• #511006: Commodity creation skipped due to saved mappings
• #512166: doesn't build with glib-2.15.3
• #512173: Empty "match payees/memos" druid step shown
• #512497: Investment transactions ignore payee/memo mappings
• #513088: "Find" immediately unmaps window
• #513829: Investment account may be created with Stock account type
• #516178: Scheme error during progress dialog causes freeze

Other changes

• Recognize 401k/403b in QIF import
• Remove superfluous trailing colons of de_DE SKR04 account names
• Add russian account templates
• Add Swiss German translation
• Update translations: Brazilian Portugese, German, Greek, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish

Many thanks go to

Charles Day
Charles Wang
Christian Stimming
Christoph Ernst
Daniel Espinosa
Derek Atkins
Eneko Lacunza
Ian Lewis
Josh Sled
Nathan Buchanan
Nikos Charonitakis
Nis Martensen
Raffael Luthiger
Renato Moutinho
Rolf Leggewie
Сергей Беляшов
William Hamblen
Zdenko Podobny

How can You help?

• We would like to encourage people to test this and any further releases as much as possible and submit bug reports in order that we can continuously polish GnuCash to be as stable as possible. Simply post any bugs you find to bugzilla http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash
• If you have the urge to help beyond testing please get involved in the discussions on the GnuCash mailing lists which you will find at http://www.gnucash.org. We especially need people to help with updating the documentation. Please see http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Development on how to get involved.
• Translating: The GnuCash 2.2.0 release came with some new translation strings. If you consider contributing a translation, we invite you to work with the translation template in this package. Our development is in String Freeze now, so you can safely work on our translation. Please check http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Translation_Status for updates on this.

About the Program

GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux, *BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.